Target data breach settlement remanded by appeals court after two consumers...
It ain’t over until…. well, no body-shaming here, but Target is not out of the woods on litigation from their massive 2013 breach. Law360 is reporting: The Eighth Circuit decided Wednesday to send back...
View ArticleVulnerability put 1.87 million Michigan employees at risk
Catherine Shaffer reports: As many as 1.87 million Michigan workers may have had their personal information exposed through a newly discovered security vulnerability in the computer system used by the...
View ArticleThird-party incidents continue to put patient ePHI at risk: Protenus
Protenus, Inc. has released its Breach Barometer for January. As they report, 2017 is starting out where 2016 left off: we are seeing an average of one breach per day involving health data. Protenus’s...
View ArticleCriminal record raises more questions about fired DC case worker in patient...
Tisha Lewis has an update on a previously reported incident: FOX 5 is uncovering more about a D.C. case worker who sent confidential patient files to a complete stranger she met on Facebook to lighten...
View ArticleOCR investigating CoPilot Provider Support Services breach; former employee...
When CoPilot Provider Support Services recently disclosed a security incident that they had known about since 2015, their statements might have led you to believe that a disgruntled former employee had...
View ArticleNHS accused of covering up huge data loss that put thousands at risk
Denis Campbell and Pamela Duncan report: Thousands of patients are feared to have been harmed after the NHS lost more than half a million pieces of confidential medical correspondence, including test...
View ArticleUK: Private health firm fined £200,000 after IVF patients’ confidential...
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a private health company, HCA International Ltd, for failing to keep fertility patients’ personal...
View ArticleHome Depot to Pay Banks $25 Million in Data Breach Settlement
Jeff John Roberts reports: Home Depot has taken another step to move on from its colossal 2014 data breach, which involved hackers stealing email or credit card information from more than 50 million...
View ArticleBrand New Day notifies 14,005 members after breach at vendor
From their press release of March 10: Universal Care, Inc. dba Brand New Day (BND) announced today that it has notified individuals related to a privacy incident involving information stored by a...
View ArticleVCU Health System notifies 2,700 of inappropriate access to their medical...
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports: Virginia Commonwealth University Health System is notifying about 2,700 people that their or their minor child’s electronic medical records were inappropriately...
View ArticleSummit Reinsurance issues notice of breach discovered in August
Regular readers will realize that I’ve been reporting on the Summit Reinsurance breach since it first appeared in a covered entity’s disclosure back in November. Since then, I’ve been compiling and/or...
View ArticleNZ: Patient data system disabled after problem discovered
Eileen Goodwin reports: A new patient information system used by general practitioners had to be disabled yesterday because of a risk of data breach. The Otago Daily Times learned about the situation...
View ArticleUK: ‘43,000 individuals’ possibly affected after ABTA web server hacked
TTG reports: The organisation said today it had become aware of “unauthorised access to the web server supporting abta.com by an external infiltrator exploiting a vulnerability”. The web server is...
View ArticleSamsung Leaking Customer Info, Tells Customer to Take It Up with the Shipper?!
From the add-this-to-the-list-of-concerns-about-Samsung dept. Matt Metzger writes: About four months ago, I ordered a new TV directly from Samsung’s online store. A few days later, I received a...
View ArticleAffiliated Santé Group learned that patient info was exposed on GitHub for years
So there was another breach disclosed in January that I didn’t find out about until today. It’s an insider-error situation involving a software developer contractor who unintentionally exposed...
View ArticleUK: 26 million NHS patients’ records in security scare over SystmOne...
Did no one really understand what “enhanced data sharing” would permit until now? Laura Donnelly reports: The medical records of 26 million patients are embroiled in a major security breach amid...
View ArticleGoogle Points to Another POS Vendor Breach – Krebs
Brian Krebs reports: For the second time in the past nine months, Google has inadvertently but nonetheless correctly helped to identify the source of a large credit card breach — by assigning a “This...
View ArticleVermont Department of Labor details data security breach at third party Vendor
America’s Joblink Alliance – a provider of the nationwide web-based database Joblink, which is used by the State of Vermont – has notified the State that the job seeker functionality of its website was...
View ArticleShowTix4U Security Breach Notification
ACCOUNT SECURITY NOTICE ShowTix4U recently became aware of a potential security incident possibly affecting the personal information of certain individuals who made a payment card purchase on the...
View ArticleUK: How many people did Landauer hack affect?
Another breach appears to be dribbling out in bits and pieces. Antony Gedge reports that 247 staff members at Hywel Dda Health Board have been hit by a data breach at a private company that works with...
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